But no sooner had the Government revealed the local authorityallocations last week than questions were raised about just how it hadarrived at some of its figures, particularly those relating to thefunding of graduates for every children's centre and nursery.
John Thorn, head of early years and childcare in Nottinghamshire, saidhe was 'mystified' when he realised that his authority and Derbyshireare to receive 300,000 and 200,000 respectively from theGraduate Leader fund (see story, right) in 2010-11, whileNorthamptonshire is getting more than 1m. He said, 'They areobviously using some kind of formula and I am going to ask for fulldetails of it, because it doesn't make sense to me.'
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